Example sentences of "what he [adv] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fraser-Smith was a vigorous defender of the tribe 's right to live in the Serengeti national park , but deplored the moran system and worked hard in the face of what he repeatedly referred to as their ‘ stultifying conservatism ’ to make the Masai appreciate the benefits of modern ranching . |
| 2 | ‘ How did they react ? ’ asked Huy , remembering what he already knew about this . |
| 3 | He was unsurprised to find her packed off firmly to take his sister home , leaving him as a person of major importance in what he instantly assumed to be a real murder . |
| 4 | A revealing passage from Khrushchev 's memoirs , citing a letter written by the Soviet premier to Castro in late 1962 , shows his complete insensitivity to the Cubans ' wounded national pride and barely conceals his irritation at what he evidently believed to be ingratitude on Castro 's part . |
| 5 | Vic stepped to the centre of what he evidently regarded as his stage . |
| 6 | His Permanent Secretary at that time was my cousin Wilfrid Bourne , and this is what he later wrote to me : |
| 7 | After driving strongly in the top six , he fell victim to what he later described as ‘ Formula Ford driving ’ by Jean Alesi in the Ferrari F92A . |
| 8 | Senna struggled for a long time with what he later described as an undriveable car and he collided with Germany 's Michael Schumacher after 40 of the 72 laps . |
| 9 | Senna struggled for a long time with what he later described as an undriveable car and he collided with Germany 's Michael Schumacher after 40 of the 72 laps . |
| 10 | The tie he had unearthed from the neglected depths of his jacket pocket was badly creased and stained with what he strongly suspected to be taramosalata . |
| 11 | ‘ You ca n't imagine what he just said to me ! ’ |
| 12 | There was nothing new in Lukacs 's total opposition to what he contemptuously referred to as the decadent and sick art of modernism . |
| 13 | Her manner was rather endearingly confused , and Morse switched on what he sometimes saw in himself as a certain charm . |
| 14 | Whilst there Minton did what he never did with his ‘ fun ’ friends : talked seriously about his work . |
| 15 | Words made things whole for him , words were what he always aspired to . |
| 16 | She did n't mention the word ‘ love ’ , because , after what he had said and seeing now in his eyes what he truly thought of her , she doubted whether she could love a man like him . |
| 17 | Selling what he still thought of — in spite of what he said to Mary — as Hilbert 's things , appeared only on the perimeter of it , in an area of doubt . |
| 18 | He looked away , momentarily overcome by the strength of what he still felt for her , then forced himself to be insistent . |
| 19 | And he would catch Tessa 's eye and make a humorous grimace , to show what he really thought about bishops . |
| 20 | What he really needed on his side was some good old-fashioned redneck backing ; a few influential voices bellowing the Battle Hymn of the Republic and waving the Star-Spangled Banner in tightly clenched fists . |
| 21 | Then she remembered what he really wanted from her and her rage burst forth like fire . |
| 22 | Both have been chronicled in this book , and perhaps we can say now of Eliot what he once said of another poet , " We also understand the poetry better when we know more about the man . " |
| 23 | He was in a special sense a village painter , endlessly inspired by the quiet landscape and tenor of life in what he once described as ‘ the very backbone of Puritan England . ’ |
| 24 | His first book , War and Trade in the West Indies , 1739–1763 ( 1936 ) , a tour de force based on immense research , was infused throughout by his pursuit of what he once declared to be his prime interest in history — ‘ to find out how things worked ’ . |
| 25 | Quite intuitively , he told me : ‘ Had he stuck to what he originally put into the part , he would probably have had a totally different career over the next twenty years or so . |
| 26 | What he obviously had in mind was the manoeuvre carried out by horsemen displaying their skill at a gymkhana . |
| 27 | Baldwin then immediately left the meeting with what he self-mockingly described as ‘ hauteur ’ . |
| 28 | As he preceded what he now thought of as a mythical being down to the canteen , he thought about how he 'd once found the sight of Zambia 's adjustments repulsive and unnatural . |
| 29 | In case Laing was unfamiliar with it , he told the young man what he now knew to be true . |
| 30 | Repeating a five-year-old falsehood about his nationality , he applied for a one-year renewal of his passport on 24 September 1938 and , on this occasion , repeated what he now knew to be false that he was British by birth . |